As the election approached, he and his reassuringly ordinary wife Norma were seen by Conservative party strategists as the party's greatest single assets. As the campaign gathered pace ...

“If Kemi wins, the people behind her will be Gove, Smith and Cummings… Behind every sleight of hand in the Conservative party ... s not Dougie Smith in the background creating havoc, it ...

The jobs are the first the former Conservative leader has taken since he returned to the backbenches. The contenders are among 25 other independents expected to stand in a county in May.

Although she is now the fourth woman to lead the Tories, and the second leader from an ethnic minority background ... Having ...

Rishi Sunak may have hoped that this year's Conservative Party conference would focus on his new policies on net zero and motorists, but it was the future of HS2 that dominated the agenda in ...